Ayesha Khan, associate professor of emergency medicine and part of a medical mission in central Gaza, says they see “preventable deaths” due to the Israeli blockade, Al Jazeera reports.
“We have one bottle of antiseptic that we can use in a month. When we clean a wound to do a lifesaving intervention, even if we save the patient now, the antibiotic-resistant infections will take them later,” Khan told Al Jazeera.
“We see shrapnel wounds, [but] the wounds will never heal because there’s no protein in the market. We see children who have had diarrhoea for almost a year now because of the water filtration,” she said.
Khan added that Gaza has an “entire population that is not healing and that is not able to make a recovery.”